Your reason for hiding behind the sofa is clear. After a 16-year absence, Doctor Who is set for a multi-million-pound return to British TV with Christopher Eccleston as the eponymous timelord. Though the Doctor's last outing was in 1996, you concede to those still in their seats, that was the movie starring Paul McGann, which was a "flop and never managed to light the fire that had been so successfully kindled in the 1960s" (Michael Hanlon in the Daily Mail).

That success reached a peak into the late 70s, with more than 16 million viewers watching the show. But the Doctor was forced into retirement in 1989 because the show "became so self-referential and dependent on light entertainment stars that it shed viewers by the Tardis-load", you say, cribbing from David Derbyshire in the Daily Telegraph. Now the BBC "wants to rescue it from geekdom and return it to its 70s heyday - as a children's show, watched by parents".

You're curious about what we will see when the Doctor returns on March 26. Eccleston "looks more like a bloke from Manchester than a time-traveller from another world", you declare, like Emily Smith in the Sun. But "the long span since the end of the last run ... has made a clear break with the wobbly 80s episodes, leaving the new incumbent free to link hands with his esteemed forebears of the 60s and 70s", you reason, thanks to Robin Stummer in the Independent on Sunday.

But it won't be retro, you say, lifting from Simon Edge in the Daily Express. "It starts with the same music. It has the Tardis ... But wow! It's moved light years ahead. Imagine one of the old studio-bound episodes with stiff dialogue and clunking monsters and then press the fast-forward button."

Your knowledge of what the series looks like comes not from a leaked internet download, to which "the BBC reacted angrily" (Times), but from a screening at the star-studded launch in Cardiff last week. For you, or rather the Western Mail's Claire Hill, the first episode, in which Eccleston grapples with the shape-shifting Autons, "has the right balance of jokes, actions and scares to keep you hooked for the next episode".

That has much to do with the writing team of Queer as Folk's Russell T Davies, "who is rapidly emerging as the finest TV writer of his generation; Steven Moffat, creator of the award-winning sitcom Coupling; and Mark Gatiss, writer and star of the black comedy The League of Gentlemen", you say, after studying Edge in the Express.

You leave the important information until last. The Daleks will make a return, and this time they have learned how to fly. As well as their famous cry of "'Exterminate!', when they want to lift off the ground, they shout: 'Elevate! Elevate!'" (Daily Star).